Question: Is egoism important for our development?

Answer: Egoism is not merely important for development, there is nothing besides it. It must not be suppressed; it must develop.

We must be concerned with its correction and proper use, not with suppressing it, because egoism is our nature, the desire to receive. It is impossible to destroy it.

The entire world is one great ego operating on different levels: still, vegetative, animate, and speaking. And the purpose of the world is to come to the full utilization of the power of egoism, not to destroy it.

Do you want to destroy matter itself? That is impossible! You can turn a person into a plant by giving him the appropriate injection. Of course, he will feel less and suffer less, but how long can such a state be maintained, even with the help of various methods?

Therefore, neither religions nor various methodologies are the solution. This is already becoming clear.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/10/26, Rabash, “What Is Above Reason in the Work?”

Comment: A person is a desire to receive for himself. One will never ask for suffering.

My Response: Correct, a person wouldn’t ask for it, but what is suffering? Various desires are revealed in a person that differ from the desire of the Creator, yet they must be completely similar to Him.

The Creator shines on a person against every desire, and then gradually they begin to feel that something is wrong, although they still do not understand what is happening. These sufferings are the realization of our difference from the Creator.

Even now, whatever the reason for my suffering may be, it is a sign that in some way I am different from Him. This happens on the animate level as well as on the highest spiritual levels. Any suffering is due to the lack of similarity to the Creator, the discrepancy between the Kli and the light. Such a revelation pushes a person toward the goal. You do not have to be highly intellectual for this. If we pay attention to it, we can accelerate our development and awareness of it. But if we do not pay attention, we receive even greater suffering.

Question: What should we pay attention to?

Answer: To what is the source of suffering.

Comment: But I do not know what that is

My Response: What is knowledge for you? It is what you heard from someone or read in a book.

Knowledge is the receiving of light in the Kli. If a person simply suffers, this does not yet mean that he knows. “To know” means to attain the source of suffering. Gradually, it is revealed to a person how he can attain his source. And then you should only desire to investigate it, to work against suffering.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/10/26, Rabash, “What Is Above Reason in the Work?”

Question: How can a person know that he has exhausted his entire measure? Or is this revealed only at the very end?

Answer: Only at the very end does a person discover that he has exhausted his entire measure and stands before Yam Suf (the final sea), which he must cross. This means that he has already gone through all the qualities and made all the discernments required during the period of preparation. Whenever someone cried out, “When will it happen? When?” Rabash would answer: “The Creator’s salvation comes in the blink of an eye.” Wait, it can happen at any moment.

Every next moment may be the decisive one. And every time you are filled with disappointment and despair yet continue searching for new strength in order to advance and reach the goal despite everything, it may happen that this time, instead of once again trying to move forward on your own and making use of new opportunities, you suddenly discover that you have nothing left. No more strength. No more means. You have reached the final sea, and all that remains is to cross it.

Question: But perhaps instead of constantly trying to find new strength and new means, would it be better to simply tell myself that I have exhausted everything, and reach a state of complete despair?

Answer: You cannot leave the path halfway and say: “I have tried everything. There is nothing more for me to do.” Because this point of faith above reason, the crossing of the final sea, is revealed precisely through your continued pressure and efforts to break through and move forward.

Usually, after a period of discouragement and disappointment, you begin to search for what else can be done. You do not know what to do, and it seems as though all possibilities have already been exhausted, and nothing remains. It is precisely this search, together with the inability to find any solution, that gives birth to a genuine demand, a true cry to the Creator.

And from that cry, the gates of holiness are opened.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/13/26, Rabash, “And the Lord Appeared to Him at the Oaks of Mamre”

Question: How can intention be measured? Either it exists or not.

Answer: Intention can be measured in degrees, in kilograms, in anything you like. Suppose we have a desire that is divided into four phases, or into five altogether if we include the root phase. These five phases are further divided into five, and then again into five, and so on.

According to the degree of desire upon which I am able to clothe an intention for the sake of bestowal instead of an intention for the sake of reception, I measure my level.

But first I must acquire an intention for the sake of reception. This too is not simple; all of this takes place beyond the Machsom (barrier). Thus, if I am able to cross the Machsom, acquire an intention for the sake of reception, and then correct it into an intention for the sake of bestowal, the magnitude of the desire upon which I can place this intention determines the magnitude of the intention itself.

For example, I want to drink a cup of tea. My desire may be as small as one gram, or it may be a hundred kilograms. We know from our own experience that our desires for the same things are constantly changing.

Let us say that right now I want to drink tea with an anticipated pleasure of ten kilograms, and I want it with the intention to receive. If, after a restriction (Tzimtzum) and the necessary preparation for “for the sake of bestowal,” I am able to change the use of that same desire, then the magnitude of my intention for the sake of bestowal will be ten kilograms.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/6/26, Rabash, “Why Is the Torah Called ‘Middle Line’ in the Work? – 1”